Dotty Dimple at Play

n' off, Dot

and you mu

gone yet. You's goin'

ged glances, for they had an

" added Katie, with a pitying glance at her cousin, "'caus

of a mouth took its own shape again. "Now I just mean to tell you something nice, for you might as well know it

t like a leaf in a breeze. "Going to 'N

l day-won't you, darling, a

lyaway (meaning mi, fa, sol). Then she ran to the bureau, perched

d-not dishbey your mamma, not hide her freds

de happy for tw

more time," said she

her little head was so full of the journey that she arous

,-we for salt, salt, s

Dimp

could come out of dreamland, a

d faintly, and turned away her face, for

ing her by the shoulders; "don't you

but just the moon

tted im in two?" said Flyaway

unt Maria's pleasant house, and t

"I like you just as well as if you wasn't black. And, Katinka, I like you just as well a

on each side of her head with great satisfaction, and was very sorr

en so docile and affectionate during her visit, that he began to think he

e. Katie thought she had the care of the whole

said She; "I'll look out the winne

" said Mrs. Clifford; "I have a

e, mamma? I's solly. L

Miss Flyaway trying to prop her mother's head against her own morsel o

t, growing very tired of so much care, and be

ll been refreshed by a nice dinner, and Flyaway had caught a nap, which took her about as long as it

hey make blind

n; "it is a school where b

en they is blind

n't see,

lf an idea of their condition, and ran ag

n, Hollis," said she, "

ee how people that can't see can see to

of feeling; the letter

ere we are at

which occupied an entire square, and were enclosed by an iron fence. In front of the

d Dotty. "I don't see what people w

Katie. "What um wants wi

ere met at the door by a blind waiting-girl

, gazing at her earnestly. "Her eyes i

d," but the children did not suspect it. They were much interested in the specimens of bead-work which were to be seen I

at with one's eyes shut; but it always did puzzle me to see how blind

rintende

"but it is a mistake. The colors are put into separate

ng busy," said Mr. Parlin. "It is a beau

"I am blind myself, and I know how ne

at the noble face of th

he b

ed Dotty. "Grandma wears 'em because she

unconsciously supposed his hearing must be rather dull; but, o

fully, "these spectacles of mine may be

this; but she was very so

m. This was a very pleasant place, furnished with nice desks; and at one end were book-cases containing "blind books" wit

ry much like other children, only they did not appear to notice that any o

y had never seen themselves in the glass; and how did they know whether their hair was rough or smoo

I should s'pose 'twas night all the whole time, and not any stars either! When my father spoke to me, I should think it was my mot

ing, the children were reading aloud from their odd-looking books. It was strange to see

hey should tease God very hard, would he le

ad to be blind; she hoped so. The teacher now called

about the inhabitant

ould have been bright if the lids had not shut them out of sight,

ke; all but Dotty and Flyaway, who did not consider it funny at all. Flyaway was seat

e up higher than the water, and the deserts were powdered with sand. These blind children co

oung lady-was quite pleased

between this and the Portlan

the other three divisions, to have th

d to her mind the memory of beautiful things, as music always does; and then she remembered that through their whole lives these children must grope in darkness. She felt more sorr

repeat sentences of their own composing. Some things they sai

blind, for they

ever so many pumpkins and candles inside, these blind children wouldn't know it; they couldn't be frighte